Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it is like west or nor-nor-east, which won’t exist when the earth stops existing and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else, like Mogadishu and Sunderland and Canberra.

Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

the capital and largest city of Somalia; a port on the Indian Ocean; one of the most dangerous and lawless cities in the world since collapse of the central government in 1991

Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it is like west or nor-nor-east, which won’t exist when the earth stops existing and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else, like Mogadishu and Sunderland and Canberra.

Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

But she dreamed of starting a hospital in her homeland—the hospital my dad would have wanted to work in—and in the early 1980s she began building her own private hospital in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.